ROAD DEATHS IN APRIL
Many Accidents In Canterbury
! (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 3. Special measures to curb the | increases in road deaths in the : Auckland and Christchurch districts are to be announced soon. The Minister of Transport (Mr W. S. Goosman) said 36 persons were killed on the roads in April. 14 more than in the same month last year. This brought the total of deaths this year tc li3, compared with 100 at the end of April last year.
Mr Goosman said that 17, nearly half of last month’s deaths, had i occurred in the Auckland and Canterbury districts. This was in sharp contrast with the 18 deaths in these two districts for the first three months of toe year Of the 36 who lost their lives in April, 11 were pedestrians killed at night. Last year, three pedestrians had lost their lives iin ApriL “Pedestrians on the roads during these hours of darkness should remember that even though they may see a car approaching, the driver may not be able to see them.” said Mr Goosman. “Motorists should keep their speeds down at night and in poor weather and at all times be on the watch for others on the road.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 12
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